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Isolation and characterization of mutants defective in seed coat mucilage secretory cell development in Arabidopsis.
Plant physiology - 1 Nov 2001
Western T L, Burn J, Tan W L, Skinner D J, Martin-McCaffrey L, Moffatt B A, Haughn G W
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In Arabidopsis, fertilization induces the epidermal cells of the outer ovule integument to differentiate into a specialized seed coat cell type producing extracellular pectinaceous mucilage and a volcano-shaped secondary cell wall. Differentiation involves a regulated series of cytological events including growth, cytoplasmic rearrangement, mucilage synthesis, and secondary cell wall production. We have tested...
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